Status Updates From The Abolition of Men

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If I thought section 1 of this 3 parter was hefty? I was not prepared! C.S. Lewis uses many words I've yet to find in the thesaurus to wax poetical about on the war progressive ideals and supposed unattached logic want to wage on the "parasitic growth of emotion" and religion. He takes a devil's advocate approach here that I think he does better (or in a more relatable way at least) in his Screwtape Letters.

“You cannot go on ‘seeing throughm things forever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it… It’s no use trying to ‘see through’ first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To ‘see through’ all things is the same as not to see.”

“Perhaps… Analytical understanding must always be a basilisk which kills what it sees and only sees by killing…arrest this process before it reaches the common reason and kills that too.”
“We have to use numbers so much we tend to think of every process as if it must be like the numeral series, where every step, to all eternity, is the same kind of step as the one before.”

La jumătate cu Desființarea omului și pot confirma un singur lucru: e sublimă.
if you know, you know hahaha